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Modeling patient flow according to ESI triage in the emergency department?

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I am modeling an emergency department and want to direct patients to different locations based on the ESI triage model, which has level 1 to level 5. In my emergency department, there is 1 patient for level 1, 32 patients for level 2, 25 patients for level 3, 3 patients for level 4 and 2 patients for level 5. For example: after triage, out of these 32 level 2 patients, 23 patients go to the acute area and 9 patients go to the resuscitation area. How to simulate this ESI triage in FlexSim Healthcare? Should a separate source be defined for each triage level or can a common source be used for all triage levels? In general, How to simulate the number and flow of the patient for these 5 levels of triage?

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Hi @shaghayegh! You can do it either way, in the arrivals tab you can schedule the patients and when you do that you can add labels to each patient (for your model maybe for each level or for acute vs resuscitation). Then in the main process flow you can use a decide and their labels to decide where each patient needs to go to. You could also look at other healthcare example models on this website for ideas or if you try to implement it and comment back I can help you work through any remaining issues!

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